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Douglas Druick at the Gene Siskel Film Center Gala at the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago in 2014.

Departing Art Institute President Douglas Druick: ‘I’ve done what I set out to do’

December 17, 2018 at 6:50 p.m.

When Douglas Druick started as Art Institute of Chicago president and director in 2011 he told the Tribune, "I see myself being here for a long time for lots of...

Departing Art Institute President Douglas Druick: ‘I’ve done what I set out to do’

December 17, 2018 at 6:50 p.m.

When Douglas Druick started as Art Institute of Chicago president and director in 2011 he told the Tribune, "I see myself being here for a long time for lots of...

The entrance to the "Light & Noir: Exiles and Emigres in Hollywood, 1933-1950" exhibit displays photographs of famous directors at the Illinois Holocaust Museum Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 in Skokie.

Illinois Holocaust Museum exhibit looks at how emigres helped shape Hollywood

December 17, 2018 at 6:50 p.m.

When Arielle Weininger learned of "Light & Noir," an exhibition in Los Angeles about European immigrants shaping the film industry during the early years of talking pictures, she knew she...

Bill Stanley, a Field Museum scientist, died of a heart attack while doing research in Ethiopia.

Bill Stanley, 58, of Field Museum dies in Ethiopia

December 17, 2018 at 6:50 p.m.

When he'd hear "roars of laughter coming from downstairs or around the corner," Larry Heaney said, he knew that his colleague, leading Field Museum scientist Bill Stanley, was giving one...

Douglas Druick stepping down as head of Art Institute

December 17, 2018 at 6:51 p.m.

Douglas Druick, Art Institute president and director, told his board Tuesday evening that he will step down when a successor is in place. Druick, 70, has been in charge at...

Museum of Science and Industry trains fetch nearly $500,000 at auction

December 17, 2018 at 6:51 p.m.

The five antique trains the Museum of Science and Industry was selling from its exhibition floor earned just under $500,000 at auction Monday. Most expensive of these was the oldest,...

‘City Creatures’: Wildlife is closer than you think

December 17, 2018 at 6:54 p.m.

Nature does not surrender in the city. The homeowner who has had a squirrel scratching in the attic or a possum lurking under the porch knows this. The late-night walker...

From Agamemnon to Andy Warhol: Our top 10 museum picks for fall

December 17, 2018 at 6:56 p.m.

The kids are back in school. Summer vacation is over. The tourists have mostly headed back home. And Chicago's cultural institutions, in late summer and autumn, go into high gear,...

Technician Jason Stec moves Chagall's "White Crucifixion" from its gallery on Aug. 25, 2015 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Chagall’s ‘White Crucifixion’ travels to Italy to meet the pope

June 16, 2018 at 3:08 p.m.

For a musician to get to Carnegie Hall, the old joke says, all she has to do is practice. Taking a famous painting on the road requires practice, perfection, foam...

Primate births at Brookfield and Lincoln Park Zoos

December 17, 2018 at 6:58 p.m.

Both Chicago-area zoos announced primate births Wednesday, Brookfield with a western lowland gorilla born on Wednesday and Lincoln Park with a black-and-white colobus monkey born Sept. 15.The gorilla, sex still...

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